Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 12:31:25 +0200 From: Emre Bastuz <info@emre.de> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Wrong drive Geometry with IBM Deskstar + Tyan Mainboard ? Message-ID: <1018866685.3cbaabfda3405@webmail.emre.de>
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Hi, I´ve just been trying to setup FreeBSD 4.5 on hardware consisting of a Tyan Thunder LE-T mainboard and an IBM IDE harddisk with 40 GIG. When I boot off CD, I can do the installation and everything seems fine. When I do a reboot, the system hangs. Even if I do have a bootable CD inserted, the systems tries to boot from harddisk (first boot device is CD) and stops with no messages on the screen. No prompt. Nothing. Just something in the upper left corner of the monitor that resembles a cursor. Does anyone have an idea why: - the bootable CD is being ignored ? - why the installation works but the boot process does not even start ? - how I can fix this ? Maybe this has something to do with the drive geometry - when I start the installation, fdisk complains about "79780/16/63" being not a a valid geometry and choses to use "5005/255/63" instead. Hmmm ... Thanks and regards, Emre -- Emre Bastuz info@emre.de http://www.emre.de UIN: 561260 PGP Key ID: 0xAFAC77FD ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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